figuratively

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈfɪɡ.ər.ə.tɪv.li]
• 美式音标 [ˈfɪɡ.jɚ.ə.tɪv]
• 国际音标 ['figjurətivli]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adv.比喻地；借喻地

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• But if you don't and won't, then burn this post immediately (figuratively, of course) and stick to what you know.
  但是如果你不这样或者不想这样，那么请马上烧了这篇文章（当然是象征性的），做你想要坚持做的。
• What can help is to “figuratively ‘close the door’ on your work each day and be completely present with your family, ” Stack said.
  每天可以在工作前象征性的关上房间的门，提醒自己要进入工作状态，”斯塔克说。
• The phrase literally means "mountain fortress" and figuratively conjures a romantic notion of bandits in a mountain hideaway taking potshots at the established giants.
  它的字面意思是：山中的城堡。 浪漫的比喻为：隐匿暗处的强盗通过对已确立地位的巨人的偷袭而获利。

原声例句

• I lighted my lantern, and found that I was perched on a narrow ledge, almost at the end of my rope literally and figuratively.

权威例句

• Why is literature still figuratively the nervous dude in the tweed jacket smelling of moth balls?
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• In our fast-paced, productivity-focused lives and workplaces, we are losing our gardens — literally and figuratively.
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• Both are larger than life figures literally (in the over six feet club) and figuratively.
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词组短语

短语

• figuratively speaking 象征地;打个比方吧
• Speaking figuratively 另有其意
• Both Figuratively And Literally 无论形象和夸张
• to use figuratively 象征性地使用
• expletive used figuratively 粗话别用

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• in a way that uses words and phrases with a more imaginative meaning than usual